an intransitive verb has no direct object, for example ‘arrive’, ‘escape’, ‘occur’, ‘fall’, and ‘scream’. In the sentence ‘She grew up in Bristol’, the verb ‘grow up’ is intransitive.
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causative
ditransitive
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intransitively
adverb
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active
causative
ditransitive
intransitivity
noun
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active
causative
ditransitive
intransitive
adjectivelinguistics
US /ɪnˈtrænzətɪv/
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an intransitive verb has no direct object, for example ‘arrive’, ‘escape’, ‘occur’, ‘fall’, and ‘scream’. In the sentence ‘She grew up in New Orleans’, the verb ‘grow up’ is intransitive.